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Re:The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping by rafram on Sunday February 23, 2025 @01:23PM (#43151640)
Ah, you're right, I misread. But 41% vs 58% isn't a big enough difference to pay "any amount" for IMO - and the gap is much smaller with other public universities like Irvine (55%) and SUNY Binghampton (54%).
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Re:The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping by lumost on Sunday February 23, 2025 @01:46PM (#43151900)
Quintiles is a poor measure given the extremes of inequality. The Pareto distribution of income and wealth has folks in the top 10/1/.1/.01 percentiles with vastly different lifestyles compared to the other percentiles.
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Re:The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping by rafram on Sunday February 23, 2025 @04:03PM (#43153195)
Sure, but an individual income in the top 20% ($130,000) is enough to be comfortable pretty much anywhere in the US.
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Re:The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping by Tadpole9181 on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:28PM (#43152323)
"Any amount of money" when the statistics are still a coin toss sounds like a gambling addict. That's insanely bad odds for "life savings" amounts of money...
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